If they dont' have fillers they have to sometimes cancel the series, which is even worse. Take Inuyasha for example. Instead of having fillers they just cancelled the series in 2004 when they caught up to the manga for the second time. So because they didn't want filler you ended up getting no anime until Inuyasha the Final Act (5+ years later). However because of this they had to put 20 Manga Books into 24 episodes. This compares to 35 manga books into 180+ episodes in the original series. Basically because they didn't want to do filler we ended up losing a lot of good canon content.

Blimey, I didn't know that. Sounds extreme. The way I see it with Naruto Shippuden, hopefully all the canon stuff is kept on and fillers are added not just to buy time for the manga but to also add further emphasis on the canon stuff and that's supposed to improve the story but so many people take it badly.

Well I feel like its the fact that the writers of the manga and the producers of the anime are different teams. If that's the case then the have to actually use their brains and produce an episode, without a script to go by.

So the problem is that the animation dept is sorely lacking creativity.

the Manga is complete created by Kishimoto, with maybe a couple editors, then it is published, after it's published the animators then start to create the animation for it, this is a lengthy process since they have to draw new scenes to correnspond with the manga

Well now they shouldnt worry that they will catch up the manga. The manga will probably be over long before we see it in anime.

Also how come the fillers are so damn kindergardenISH? ( Its worse than pokemon x100) And they have fighting in the fillers, but against silly monsters, lousy pirates or naruto shadow clone.Did i mention "the girls get together episode" !?! Cant they make some interesting shit out of it,.. Don the creators get paid ?!??!

I agree, the fillers are the reason Naruto has lost alot of it's fans between that and Jiriaya's death, Naruto's popularity is going downhill, it will go to rock bottom if Kakashi or Hinata die sadly and wierdly considering Hinata isn't even a primary character

I bet the amount of viewers took a plunge when they did (Kakashi was resurrected later and Hinata was thought to be dead for at least a week on two occasions: when it happened in the manga and when it happened in the anime). My brother told me how he was massively pissed off about Kakashi and even contemplated not watching anymore episodes. I was like that with Hinata but something told me not to count her out.

I agree, the fillers are the reason Naruto has lost alot of it's fans between that and Jiriaya's death, Naruto's popularity is going downhill, it will go to rock bottom if Kakashi or Hinata die sadly and wierdly considering Hinata isn't even a primary character

I think people will be upset if Hinata dies even though she isn't a primary character because they still hope that Naruto and her will be together in the end. I am not that obsessed with the pairing wars but if Sakura gets Naruto after treating him crap all these years I am going to be mad as hell!!! LOL

Well. Fillers really suck. They are usually very poorly executed in Naruto, but they are often a necessary evil.

One anime episode can easily chew trough 1,5-3 manga issues. 1 manga issue = 1 week, so it's not hard to understand why the anime catches up to the manga fast.
I don't think the fillers will ruin Naruto, I really don't. They are a bit smarter with them than Bleach where they tie the fillers into the main show, which is really confusing if you've read the manga.
As for Naruto loosing popularity, I really really doubt it. During the fillers, sure, but... If you've sneak peaked at the coming arch it will rock your world and make up for all the time waiting for it to start. So I'd rather have fillers enough for the anime to complete the arch close to the same time with the manga. I really don't want to be in the middle of the next arch and have 10 filler episodes, then 5 OMG!!! episodes, then 10 more fillers.

The solution to a fillerless anime would be to make Naruto a 1 episode @ 30-40 minutes pr month or something, but I doubt that will ever happen. There is to much money in the franchise at the moment so even the fillers count for some.

People are complaining that the Anime team isn't rationing the manga enough, but honestly it's next to impossible to keep a good chapter to episode ratio, especially if the chapters are basic. 17ish pages going into 30 minute videos rarely happen 1:1.

Well we assume it's the final arc. The Anime team just wants to make sure it won't catch up. However, I'm sure they will have plenty of ideas for filler scenes in the war. Let's just say the manga isn't as detailed in some parts as I would like it to be. With any luck, the Anime will fill in some of those details.